1. Preface

   • Andrei Bolibrukh
   • Michiel Hazewinkel
   • Mina Teicher

   Preface Pages: 1 - 1

2. Monodromy of Hypersurface Singularities

   • Mathias Schulze

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 13

3. The Long-Eight-Figure Spines of Lens Spaces and Binary Trees

   • Mikhail Ovchinnikov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 24

4. Simple Examples of Symplectic Four-manifolds with Exotic Properties

   • Fedor Bogomolov
   • Yuri Tschinkel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 28

5. Special Varieties and Classification Theory: An Overview

   • F. Campana

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 49

6. The Complexity of 2-Fold Branched Coverings of a 3-Sphere

   • O. M. Davydov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 54

7. Symmetric Functions, Noncommutative Symmetric Functions, and Quasisymmetric Functions

   • Michiel Hazewinkel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 83

8. Monodromy Invariants – From Symplectic to Smooth Manifolds

   • L. Katzarkov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 103

9. Monodromy of Rational KZ Equations and Some Related Topics

   • V. P. Lexin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 115

10. Holomorphic Symplectic Manifolds and Lagrangian Fibrations

    • Daisuke Matsushtia

    OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 123

11. Finite-Type Invariants of Cubic Complexes

    • S. Matveev
    • M. Polyak

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 132

12. A Threefold of General Type with q ₁=q ₂=p _g =P ₂=0

    • M. Cristina Ronconi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 150

13. Equivariant Casson Invariants and Links of Singularities

    • Olivier Collin
    • Nikolai Saveliev

    OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 165

14. Numerical Burniat and Irregular Surfaces

    • Ezio Stagnaro

    OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 181

15. Monodromy of Variations of Hodge Structure

    • C. A. M. Peters
    • J. H. M. Steenbrink

    OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 194

16. On the Degeneration, Regeneration and Braid Monodromy of T×T

    • Meirav Amram
    • Mina Teicher

    OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 270

17. New Component of the Moduli Space M(2;0,3) of Stable Vector Bundles on the Double Space P ³ of Index Two

    • A. S. Tikhomirov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 279

18. On Poisson–Malcev Structures

    • Vladimir V. Vershinin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 292